This guideline was developed before the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers diagnosing and managing pneumonia in adults who do not have COVID-19. It aims to improve accurate assessment and diagnosis of pneumonia to help guide antibiotic prescribing and ensure that people receive the right treatment.
July 2022:...
This guideline provides recommendations for the management of suspected and confirmed community- and hospital-acquired pneumonia in adults. However, it does not provide recommendations on areas of care where best practice is already established, such as diagnosis using chest X-ray. This guideline does no...
Torres, A;
Niederman, M. S;
Chastre, J;
Ewig, S;
Fernandez-Vandellos, P;
Hanberger, H;
Kollef, M;
Li Bassi, G;
Luna, C. M;
Martin-Loeches, I;
Paiva, J. A;
Read, R. C;
Rigau, D;
Timsit, J. F;
Welte, T;
Wunderink, R.
The most recent European guidelines and task force reports on hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) were published almost 10 years ago. Since then, further randomised clinical trials of HAP and VAP have been conducted and new information has become available. Studi...
Cho, Young-Jae;
Cho, Young-Jae;
Moon, Jae Young;
Shin, Ein-Soon;
Kim, Je Hyeong;
Jung, Hoon;
Park, So Young;
Kim, Ho Cheol;
Sim, Yun Su;
Rhee, Chin Kook;
Lim, Jaemin;
Lee, Seok Jeong;
Lee, Won Yeon;
Lee, Hyun Jeong;
Kwak, Sang Hyun;
Kang, Eun Kyeong;
Chung, Kyung Soo;
Choi, Won-Il.
Since the first description of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) as a series of 12 patients in 1967 by Ashbaugh
et al.1
, it still remains a major public health problem that incurs
high health care costs and causes major mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) despite improvements in outcomes...
The microbial causes of pneumonia vary according to its origin and the immune constitution of the patient. Pneumonia is classified into community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) and pneumonia in the immunocompromised. The guideline development process is guided by its scope - ...
The revised guidelines present two major changes to existing guidelines: (A) there are now just 2 categories of pneumonia instead of 3 (“pneumonia” which is treated at home with oral amoxicillin and “severe pneumonia” which requires injectable antibiotics) and (B) oral amoxicillin replaces oral c...
Community-acquired pneumonia is diagnosed by clinical features (e.g., cough, fever, pleuritic chest pain) and by lung
imaging, usually an infiltrate seen on chest radiography. Initial evaluation should determine the need for hospitalization versus outpatient management using validated mortality or severi...
Neumonía/diagnóstico por imagen,
Neumonía/terapia,
Enfermedades Respiratorias/diagnóstico,
Atención Ambulatoria/organización & administración,
Cultivo de Sangre/instrumentación,
Macrólidos/uso terapéutico,
Doxiciclina/uso terapéutico,
Antibacterianos/uso terapéutico,
Fluoroquinolonas/uso terapéutico,
Unidades de Cuidados Intensivos,
Neumonía Asociada a la Atención Médica/prevención & control